Venus figurines from around the world; small and portable sculptures emphasizing the female form, carried by nomadic tribes

Venuses, or Astarte Interesting, the oldest known sculptures all seem to be women of substance. What does that say about the fence post considered "models" today? Models for who?

A variety of Mother Goddess figures of the Paleo and Neolithic periods - dating from 28,000 to 15,000 BCE.

Mother Goddess Figurine statuettes from 6000 to 3000 BCE

Ancient Craft - prehistoric art. In 1922 René de Saint-Périer (1877-1950) discovered the Venus of Lespugue in the Rideaux cave of Lespugue in the foothills of the Pyrenees, part of the Haute Garonne region of France. The venus is from the Gravettian Upper Paleolithic culture.

Cucuteni - Romania - 4500-4400 BC

McDermott - Self-Representation in Upper Paleolithic Female Figurines Table of Contents The First Human Images The earliest prehistoric representations, the so-called Venus figurines, constitute a recognizable stylistic class and are among the most widely known of all Paleolithic objects